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The number of children in care is at a 20-year high. There are nearly 70,000 children in care in the UK, of which a significant proportion - 17 per cent - are between one and four years old.
These children often have some of the most complex needs nursery staff will come across. Challenging behaviour, learning difficulties and disabilities, and behavioural and mental health needs are all common. Many of them come from the poorest backgrounds and more than 60 per cent of children are taken into care because of neglect or abuse. Others are there because their parents have died or cannot look after them. Most live in foster homes.
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